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A quick quiz: Which is safer? Driving while talking on a hand-held cell phone, or while using a hands-free device?
If you answered “Neither,” then you’ve likely been paying attention to a number of studies in recent years—most recently, last week, from The University of Utah and AAA.
These studies keep finding that that talking and texting impair driving whether a phone is hand-held or not.
But the question remains: Why is this the case? Here’s one possible answer, from an unusual source.
Robert Rosenberger’s theory on driver distraction is outlined in the April 2013 issues of two academic journals: Communications of the ACM and IEEE Technology & Society Magazine.
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